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Byrne has made MovableType.org a little bit more interesting this evening by adding feeds from MovableType related sites (including this one!).
Very nice addition!
Very nice addition!
RSS feeds are great when they work properly and even better when they display the content in a sane fashion.
Unfortunately some of the earlier releases of MT4 contained bugs in the templates which rendered the RSS output in a rather odd manner. When I say "odd" I really mean ugly and illegible!
Luckily it's very easy to fix and, in common with most things related to MovableType, doesn't involve getting your hands dirty with code.
Chad has posted a nice little tutorial on how to remedy the situation if you are affected
Unfortunately some of the earlier releases of MT4 contained bugs in the templates which rendered the RSS output in a rather odd manner. When I say "odd" I really mean ugly and illegible!
Luckily it's very easy to fix and, in common with most things related to MovableType, doesn't involve getting your hands dirty with code.
Chad has posted a nice little tutorial on how to remedy the situation if you are affected
One of the rather annoying downsides to moving from Wordpress to MovableType is that you may end up losing a lot of your feed subscribers.
Even if you have been redirecting your site's feeds to a 3rd party service such as Feedburner a lot of people will still have subscribed to the non-feedburner URLs which are not present in MovableType.
The best solution to combat this is to write some custom mod_rewrite rules to force people's readers to go to the correct URL - either that of your Feedburner feed or the standard Movable Type RSS locations.
I'm still working on a sane .htaccess hack to make this happen and will post it once I have done so, but if anyone has any ideas or suggestions in the meantime I'd love to hear them.
Even if you have been redirecting your site's feeds to a 3rd party service such as Feedburner a lot of people will still have subscribed to the non-feedburner URLs which are not present in MovableType.
The best solution to combat this is to write some custom mod_rewrite rules to force people's readers to go to the correct URL - either that of your Feedburner feed or the standard Movable Type RSS locations.
I'm still working on a sane .htaccess hack to make this happen and will post it once I have done so, but if anyone has any ideas or suggestions in the meantime I'd love to hear them.
